Last update Feb. 9, 2023
Limited compatibility
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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Acitretin is also known as
Acitretin in other languages or writings:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Acitretin in its composition:
Variable | Value | Unit |
---|---|---|
Oral Bioavail. | 36 - 95 | % |
Molecular weight | 326 | daltons |
Protein Binding | 99 | % |
Tmax | 1 - 4 | hours |
T½ | 50 -157 | hours |
M/P ratio | 0.18 | - |
Theoretical Dose | 0.006 | mg/Kg/d |
Relative Dose | 1.4 | % |
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Synthetic retinoid derivated from vitamin A. It is a metabolite of etretinate. It is used in the treatment of severe forms of psoriasis, ichthyosis, Darier's disease and lichen planus. Oral administration.
Despite a low amount secreted through the breast milk, less than 2% of the maternal equivalent dose (Rollman 1990), some expert authors (Hale 2019, Butler 2014, Mervic 2014, Schaefer2007, Rollman 1990) think that product's toxicity justifies to avoid it during breastfeeding.
Others consider it compatible with breastfeeding (Briggs 2017). American Academy of Pediatrics: Maternal medication usually compatible with breastfeeding. (AAP 2001)
It can cause gynecomastia. (Atzenhoffer 2018)
Until there is more published data on this drug in relation to breastfeeding, safer known alternatives may be preferable, especially during the neonatal period and in cases of prematurity.